Heh, would anybody on here find it funny if I said my mom moved in with me for a few months? How often do you hear about that happening?
As to the subject of the story, is anyone besides me wondering if these kids futures would’ve turned out differently if they understood that there would no longer be any free rides after they hit eighteen?
Yeah, but you owe it to your mom (or dad). That's just paying back a small part of what they gave you. Well, maybe not everyone (there are some awful parents out there), but most.
My mother lived with me and my wife for over two years.
It was a blessing to have her with us.
She currently lives with my brother.
She will be 93 in June.
As to the subject of the story, is anyone besides me wondering if these kids futures would’ve turned out differently if they understood that there would no longer be any free rides after they hit eighteen?
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I agree with you. We have a couple that are our friends. Their younger son has lived with them off and on for 7 years. He’s now 25. The mother would pay the son’s car loan and not tell her husband, slip him extra money and all this while the kid was working.
My thought is, if you can afford your car and you have a job, maybe you need a cheaper car. The first time he moved out on his own, he called his mom the 2nd day he was in his apartment and asked her “how come there’s no cable, no sports channel, etc.” When told he had to call and have those services turned on and pay for them, he said “I think I have to move back home.” She let him and paid for him breaking his lease to move home.
Now that he’s got a very good job, he’s still at home because she wants him to get a house but only on the “good part of town” where his parents live. Well we can’t even afford a home there and we make more than their son so how long will that take? The older brother also just moved home with his wife and 2 kids for the same reason. They sold their house and want to live on the “good side of town”.
*shaking my head*